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The Seeker

CHAPTER XIV
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The people outside more generally than you dream know that God does not discriminate among religions--that he has a scheme of a dignity so true that it can no more permit the loss of one black devil-worshipper than that of the most magnificent of archbishops." He stopped, looking inquiringly--almost wistfully, at them.
Various polite exclamations assured him of their interest.
"Continue, by all means," urged Whittaker.

"I feel that you will have even Father Riley edified in a moment." "The most cynical chap--even for a Unitarian," purled that good man.
Bernal resumed.
"Your God is a tribal God who performed his wonders to show that he had set a difference between Israel and Egypt.

Your Saviour continues to set the same difference: Israel being those who believed his claim to Godship; Egypt those who find his evidence insufficient.

But we humans daily practise better than this preaching of retaliation.

The Church is losing power because your creeds are fixed while man, never ceasing to grow, has inevitably gone beyond them--even beyond the teachings of your Saviour who threatened to separate father from son and mother from daughter--who would distinguish sheep from goats by the mere intellectual test of the opinion they formed of his miracles.


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